{"id":9326,"date":"2016-01-13T19:54:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2016-01-13T19:54:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T14:24:12","slug":"the-secret-behind-xy-and-xx-chromosomes-in-human-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9326","title":{"rendered":"The Secret behind XY and XX chromosomes in human being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/the-secret-behind-xy-and-xx-chromosomes-in-human-being-9326.htm\/xy_xx_chromosomes\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9327 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/XY_XX_chromosomes.jpg\" alt=\"XY_XX_chromosomes\" width=\"525\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Washington, DC: A recent study has revealed the evolution of X chromosome and why it contains an unusual mixture of genes.<\/p>\n<p>In humans, males have XY chromosomes, females have XX but only one of these is active, meaning that both sexes only have one active copy of the X chromosome.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists discovered in 2002 that the X chromosome is unusual because it contains very few of the most important genes needed for basic cell function, dubbed &#8216;housekeeping&#8217; genes.<\/p>\n<p>Now the team led by Professor Laurence Hurst have analysed the world&#8217;s largest compendium of data on gene activity (expression) and looked at how activity on the X chromosome compares with that on other chromosomes.<\/p>\n<p>The team also identified which genes have moved from the X to the other chromosomes over evolutionary time and those that have gone the other way.<\/p>\n<p>This study has been published in PLOS Biology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC: A recent study has revealed the evolution of X chromosome and why it contains an unusual mixture of genes. In humans, males have XY chromosomes, females have XX &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=9326\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-club","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}